"The destructive fixation of the envious English-Canadian mind……" — Conrad Black
"The destructive fixation of the envious English-Canadian mind requires that the highest, happiest most agile flyers be laid low. [It is] a sadistic desire corroded by soul-destroying envy, to intimidate all those who might aspire to anything the slightest exceptional."
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47 Quotes by Conrad Black
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I do not at all have the mind of a bully... in my mind bullies are intolerant of contrary opinion,…
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The American legal industry is a medieval guild in which the prosecutors, bar, and bench join hands to ensure that…
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Watergate enabled the Democrats to cut off all aid to South Vietnam and ensure American defeat in a war their…
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All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation.
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Given the genocidal belligerence of Iranian threats against Israel, it is hard to take issue with Israel's right to preemptive…
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I made 50 million bucks yesterday. That's a flameout I could get used to.
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I may have made a mistake in renouncing my Canadian citizenship, which I have never ceased to promise to try…
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Most American media outlets that are controlled by Jews seem to be reflexively, or at least habitually, anti-Israel.
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Nixon's full term was one of the most successful in U.S. history, which is why he was re-elected by the…
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For all history up to the end of the Cold War, summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions, when leaders…
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The Arabs could have peace tomorrow if sufficient numbers of Palestinians were not content to be used as cannon fodder…
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The argument of socialists, that people really want to share, beyond a reasonable level of charity, is rubbish, though it…
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So I hope I’ve made clear that imposing agile methods is a very red flag.
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